The Legend of Ellie Quin by Alex Scarrow

Brought to my attention by Kate Atherton of the bookblog "For Winter Nights" I decided to give this a try although what is classed these days as "Young Adult" fiction is not normaly my thing.   This is the first volume of the adventures of Ellie Quin a farmer's daughter who lives on the planet Harpers Reach  in the thirty third century.   Like farmers daughters through the ages she is bored with living in a rural backwater and longs for the big city, called New Haven, or even other planets if possible.   She sets out to walk to New Haven but collapses in the desert where she is rescued by Aaron Goodman, a space age trucker.   He takes her to New Haven where she is promptly robbed of all her money but is then "befriended" by a streetwise young woman.   Here endeth the first volume but numbers two and three are already available on Kindle.   This is very reminiscent of the kind of stories that I lapped up in my school days when my Grandmother treated me to a copy of "The Adventure" comic every Saturday.   Of course, then the hero would have been a boy and Mr Scarrow would not have been allowed the mildly bad language and slight sexual references in this story.   Will I progress to volume two of Miss Quin's saga?   Why not, as they say growing old is inevitable but growing up is optional.